The 12 best pies in NYC right now

This seasonal pie shop could star in a rom-com: with red-and-green stalls in the holiday markets in Bryant Park, Union Square, and Columbus Circle, it’s basically designed for a meet-cute. With mini pies available from late October through the holiday season, you can choose from flavors including sour cherry, pear almond and apple crumble topped with whipped cream to eat while you fall in love with NYC. 

This Harlem bakery fuses Southern-style baking with owner Amadou Diakite’s time on the Ivory Coast. He serves up chocolate pecan and tropical coconut custard along with one of Harlem’s best slices of sweet potato pie. Not to be confused with pumpkin, it’s sweeter and airier than the other orange pie on the Thanksgiving table. 

This pint-size Lower East Side pie shop opened a charming Clinton Hill café that has become one of our favorite date spots in the city. Petee’s bakes many sweets we love, including icebox key lime meringue and banana cream pie, but the absolute best for the Thanksgiving season is the creamy coconut custard. And if you're looking for a baking project, chef Petra Paredez recently released her first cookbook, Pie for Everyone. 

Pecan pie is already perfect. When chefs tinker with the classic by adding chocolate, they can end up ruining a good thing. Four & Twenty Blackbird’s bittersweet cocoa concoction, made with buttery Texas pecans and a layer of chocolate ganache, only improves on perfection. It’s our go-to for holiday potlucks when we’re looking to impress our hungry friends.

An oat-graham cracker crust cradles organic pumpkin at this beloved bakeshop in Red Hook. In traditional fashion, the creamy filling features a cabinet’s worth of autumnal spices, including nutmeg, cloves, vanilla, and ginger. Their pies are seasonal, so stay ready to pre-order yours!

Williamsburg’s cult-status Southern chicken-and-pie joint does right by this old-fashioned staple, where a banana cream base holds chunks of fresh bananas in a Nilla wafer crust. It’s all topped with whipped cream, a dusting of spicy nutmeg and whole Nilla wafers.

The namesake pies at this Red Hook operation feature golden-brown graham cracker crusts filled with condensed milk custard and real key lime juice. They’re baked in batches of just 12 for meticulous quality control.

Little Pie Company began in the apartment upstairs until it became so popular it just had to expand, earning fans including Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Jessica Parker along the way. The fresh sour cream and walnut streusel bring a little bite to the classic Granny Smith pie. 

Breads' world-class chocolate babka finds a new home in a pie with dark chocolate chips and creamy Nutella. The braided stunner will make Bubbe proud, but you’ll have to grab it fast—they’re only available for a limited time during the holiday season. 

Avid surfer and baker Tracy Obolsky (an alum of heavy-hitters like Morgansterns's and Cook Shop) has a Rockaway bakery that’s open even during the winter months. Her roster of freshly-baked offerings, specifically her fruit pies, will be sure to impress this holiday season.

​​A staple for the surrounding Muslim community, Abu’s has been dishing out bean pie on Fulton Street for a decade. Made with navy beans and a hand-rolled crust, it’s the perfect treat to bring to the table this holiday season. 

If you’re traveling outside of NYC for the holidays, bring Junior’s along—its cheesecake is famous way beyond the five boroughs. Here, a graham cracker crust is filled with layers of New York cheesecake, homemade pumpkin pie filling and swirls of pumpkin buttercream.